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The born lover, to whose degree the musician also may attain-
and then either come to a stand or pass beyond- has a certain
memory of beauty but, severed from it now, he no longer
comprehends it: spellbound by visible loveliness he clings amazed
about that. His lesson must be to fall down no longer in
bewildered delight before some, one embodied form; he must be
led, under a system of mental discipline, to beauty everywhere
and made to discern the One Principle underlying all, a Principle
apart from the material forms, springing from another source, and
elsewhere more truly present. The beauty, for example, in a noble
course of life and in an admirably organized social system may be
pointed out to him- a first training this in the loveliness of
the immaterial- he must learn to recognise the beauty in the
arts, sciences, virtues; then these severed and particular forms
must be brought under the one principle by the explanation of
their origin. From the virtues he is to be led to the
Intellectual-Principle, to the Authentic-Existent; thence onward,
he treads the upward way.
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